Thread: Toro 27HP L/C Kawasaki. 2000 hours. Deal or no deal?

Looking at a Toro 62" 27HP Kawasaki L/C machine. It has 2,000 hours. They tell me the engine will go 5,000 hours. Comes with a bagger system. Cost, $4,500. What are you thoughts? Good deal, or keep looking?

I say turn away and run. I've never had a toro, but that just seems like an incredible amount of hours for $4500. Things start tearing up slowly at that amount of hours, especially depending on how taken care of the mowers are. I know we're comparing apples to oranges here since the different size decks, but last year I got a John Deere z820a with a 48 inch deck, 25 hp kawasaki and only 125 hours for $3000. Just yesterday I got a scag pro-v walk behind with 2 hours on it for $2400. If you look around I'm sure you can find a deal, but like I said I think that's a horrible price. This is my opinion though.

If the engine has good compression, it should be fine. Its the rest of the mower that I'd be concerned about. 2000 hours means a lot of stuff will be needing replacement soon if it hasn't been already.